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literalizations

literalizations is the plural of literalization.

Meaning of literalization

Noun

literalization (countable and uncountable, plural literalizations)

  1. The act or process of literalizing.
    • One suspects, however, that it was accidental here, or unconscious, just as it’s likely that Hinton’s echo of the testimonial frame Salinger used in “The Catcher in the Rye” (“If you really want to hear about it”) wasn’t consciously intended, nor was Hinton’s literalization of Holden’s “If a body...2007 September 23, Dale Peck, “‘The Outsiders’: 40 Years Later”, in New York Times

Questions about literalizations

What is literalizations the plural of?
Literalizations is the plural of literalization.

Words near literalizations in the dictionary

  1. literalistically
  2. literalists
  3. literalities
  4. literality
  5. literalization
  6. literalizations
  7. literalize
  8. literalized
  9. literalizer
  10. literalizers
  11. literalizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: literalizations (page history and authors); literalization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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